You gotta be kidding Chetalli

Submitted by Richard the Lion heart (United States), Feb 13, 2006 at 22:54

Dear Chetalli,

You mentioned something in your comment that is completely false. At least according to the history of Islam and Muhammad. This is your statement.,"There should be no coercion in the matter of faith." We both know this is not true because force conversions happen in Islam. Muslims who commit apostasy are face death. Just like the Koran and hadith prescribe it.

Bukhari, volume 9, #17
"Narrated Abdullah: Allah's Messenger said, "The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Messenger, cannot be shed except in three cases: in Qisas (equality in punishment) for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (Apostate) and leaves the Muslims."

Bukhari, volume 9, #57
Narrated Ikrima, "Some atheists were brought to Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's messenger forbade it, saying, "Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire)." I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Messenger, "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him."

according to these hadith there is no such thing freedom of religion in the islamic way of thinking. So saying there is no coersion in Islam is false.

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